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U.S. Aid and Moving Towards the Sustainable Development Goals in Aid Recipient Countries
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U.S. Aid and Moving Towards the Sustainable Development Goals in Aid Recipient Countries
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S207054760017792-8-
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10.18254/S207054760017792-8
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Maria Beletskaya 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3141-6052
Occupation: Research Fellow
Affiliation: Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
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Issue 4
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The article examines the connection between international development assistance provided by the United States and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the recipient countries. It shows the change in approaches to international development aid and SDGs during the presidencies of Obama, Trump and Biden. Author discusses the problems of assessing the results and effectiveness of aid at the macro level and makes a quantitative assessment of the relationship between indicators of international aid, the index of sustainable development and macroeconomic indicators of countries receiving US assistance. The article concludes that no relationship could be identified between the indicators of the provision of international assistance provided by the United States and the indicators of the sustainable development index of the countries receiving this assistance. At the same time, there is a relationship between the indicators of GDP per capita and the Sustainable Development Index. There are also signs of a relationship between the Sustainable Development Index and the volume of US aid per capita, of the recipient country - a lower Sustainable Development Index of a country is usually accompanied by a higher level of aid per capita.

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U.S. international development aid, sustainable development goals, aid effectiveness, sustainable development index
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25.10.2021
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16.12.2021
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